Leveraging cross-sector connections to create a hub for civic engagement and volunteerism.

The spirit of civic engagement is strong in L.A.

That’s why we partnered with City Hall to create a new Mayor’s Office of Volunteer Engagement (MOVE). MOVE will strengthen our city’s culture of service in several ways:

• Building an accessible, curated online platform highlighting volunteer opportunities, active collaborations.
• Coordinating active collaborations between nonprofits, companies, and government to boost volunteer opportunities.
• Tracking the results of citywide volunteerism and acting as a go-to resource for Angelenos who want to work for positive change.

Start your own volunteer journey at https://letsvolunteerla.org/.

The Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, in partnership with VolunteerLA and the Mayor’s Office, is excited to award five 501(c)(3) nonprofits with a mini grant of $5,000 to use towards their online/digital volunteer recruitment in 2022. As more in person opportunities return, knowing many programs have been impacted for nearly 2 years due to COVID, this mini grant seeks to support digital volunteer recruitment efforts for agencies that have been impacted by the pandemic.

Funds may be used towards a wide variety of costs associated with digital volunteer recruitment efforts including, but not limited to, paid social media recruitment ads, staffing/consulting services, photographers, design resources such as Canva/Photoshop, etc. If selected, grant resources must directly correlate to organizational volunteer recruitment efforts and not fundraising or programmatic expenses.